Monday, January 15, 2007

Shawn Hornbeck.

Shawn Hornbeck was 11 when he vanished in October 2002 as he rode a bicycle to a friend's house in the town of Richwoods, Missouri.A major search failed to find him at the time and he was not found in the four and one half years that followed. However last last Friday. Police, searching for another teenage boy, William Ownby, who had been missing for days, discovered both boys in a tiny apartment 65 miles away in St Louis. The apartment was owned by Michael Devlin. Devlin, a pizzeria manager and part-time funeral parlour worker, has been charged with kidnapping. Shawn has been reunited with his delighted parents.

Does anyone else find it a little strange that Shawn Hornbeck the now fifteen year old kidnap victim made no attempt to escape, despite having access to phones and the freedom to come and go as he pleased, even to the point of being dropped off by the police on a number of occasions for breaking curfew?

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No, not really. I have no idea what happened to that boy, but he was only 11 when he was taken. His abductor could have done something so horrific to him in the first few days of the ordeal that it "shut him down." Keep in mind that Hornbeck knew that Devlin knew who his parents and family were. He's just a kid. Devlin could have brainwashed him and had him so scared to leave that he just couldn't. Happens a lot in sexual abuse cases. Young person keeps going back over to abuser's house because he/she has been convinced that its his or her "fault" that it's happening or that the abuser will find a way to kill or hurt his family. Shame can be a powerful tool.

That boy was abducted and deserves the complete benefit of the doubt. If it turns out things were different, well then, that's how it is. But no one can judge him. We don't know what he went through or what happened.

I'm not judging him, I just find it odd that he never once mentioned, even while playing with his best friend, anything about his mother or family. I was thinking perhaps this might be a classic case of Stockholm Syndrome, where they boy begins to identify with his captor.

Can you imagine the horror of not knowing what happened to your child? Not knowing if they are dead or alive. I couldn't even begin to imagine what that must be like. It must be the most horrific prison to be in for the parents.

What bothers me the most is how these two children have been paraded in front of the TV cameras before the ink is even dry on the abductor's jail records! What are these parents thinking? Years and years of sexual abuse (why else would the man abduct the boy?) and we're going to hold a press conference before we've even spoken to a psychologist?? Being an American is an embarrassment sometimes.....

I believe he had the earring before he was kidnapped, God Major you are turning into Victor Meldrew. Wait, did I say 'turning?'This is a little like the Austrian case is it not, where Natascha Kampusch had been kept for prisoner for eight years.

i think yea he did get kiddnaped but then he really liked the life he had..i mean he didnt have to go to school he slept most of the day and had a computer and cell phone had alot of friends not to mention that alot of his friends even said to him how he looked just like the kid..shane hornbeck that they saw on tv that was missing and shawn blew them off saying " whatever, thats not me" he had TONS of times he could have left or got help but choose not to cause i think his life with his family was bad also, so i think in his mind..the life with devlin wasnt so bad so he stayed there..plus my question is..if devlin never would of kiddnaped that ben kid would shawn have stayed there till he was like 20? would he ever of tried contacting his parents? i mean the least he could of done was call them and tell them he was ok, and that he was alive...so they didnt live every day of the 5 yrs thinking he was dead..how selfless

He was just a baby when he was taken. Children don't realize they have a choice at that age. A 300 pound verbally and sexually abusive person making threats to you and raping you? And you think you can just keep a normal frame of reference and call home? Come on. He had him literally scared to death. And what about the guy upstairs saying he "heard whimpering and pleading and crying and screaming coming from the apartment while loud music played." (SEVERAL times over the years... a common occurrence.) Classic case of someone who should have gotten involved. Call the police if there is a question of abuse? I hope he loses sleep at night. This boy was tortured. Children are VERY impressionable and naive and he was completely and utterly stolen and given and new identity and could not help himself. To say that he "enjoyed" his life is a rude and unforgiveable comment. All he did was sleep because he said that was the only way he could pass the time and not have to think about his situation and his family. He felt helpless, and trapped. Mentally. And was being brutalized by that giant bastard. I hope he gets his in prison. I really do. Maybe he can get a taste of what it's like to be humiliated and have your dignity and what is yours taken away from you. And he's not 11 years old and hasn't had his entire youth stolen from him. He deserves to burn in hell.

Everyone is making alot of assumptions on what really happened to this kid...The news has become very silent lately about this story...I wonder if the true facts are coming out during this police investigation. Did anyone see the Oprah interview. This kid is terrified of his father. During that interview he looked at his mother maybe once while constantly looking to his father for his approval. This is classic of abuse victims and their abusers. Don't be shocked when the truth comes out.

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